{"id":772,"date":"2020-09-01T16:10:45","date_gmt":"2020-09-01T16:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/?p=772"},"modified":"2020-09-01T16:37:47","modified_gmt":"2020-09-01T16:37:47","slug":"the-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/2020\/09\/01\/the-way\/","title":{"rendered":"The Way"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/80996611_460628314655274_3104110162038751232_n-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-773\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/80996611_460628314655274_3104110162038751232_n-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/80996611_460628314655274_3104110162038751232_n-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/80996611_460628314655274_3104110162038751232_n-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/80996611_460628314655274_3104110162038751232_n-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/80996611_460628314655274_3104110162038751232_n-480x270.jpg 480w, https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/80996611_460628314655274_3104110162038751232_n.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/audio\/The%20Way.m4a?_t=1598978179\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"fonts-plugin-block\" style=\"font-weight: normal;font-size: 15px;line-height: 1.3\"><strong><em>The Way <\/em><\/strong><br>I do not know the way.\u00a0<br>Don\u2019t look for guidance, here,\u00a0<br>my Dear, for surely, I\u00a0<br>will succeed in leading us astray.<br>I\u2019ve never travelled far ~\u00a0<br>never wished upon my star,\u00a0<br>kept every promise I\u00a0<br>have voiced, by choice, Love,<br>always by choice.<br>So, this is new, my Dear ~\u00a0<br>perhaps the thing I fear\u00a0<br>this having Love returned\u00a0<br>like stars forever burned\u00a0<br>into my heart, laid bare\u00a0<br>at last, to find you here<br>the Soul who tells me yes,\u00a0<br>you care ~ as completely as I dare.<br>Kazantzakis asked the almond tree to speak<br>of\u00a0God, and she, bowed her canopy,<br>shook it free, and blossomed: such Love<br>might draw the bow tauter than I<br>ever thought possible before your orbit\u00a0<br>circled mine. But, now, I find the arrow sought is\u00a0<br>always, always and ever caught by the perfect<br>target; in the very center ~ the tender part<br>of its ever-waiting heart and you, Love: always.<br>You.<br>\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br><br>by Barbara Helvey Hughes, 2020 For Peter<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":774,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-love","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=772"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":776,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772\/revisions\/776"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}